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A very merry and gay Christmas mix, enjoy!

1. Erasure – She Won’t be Home for Xmas
2. Wham! – Last Christmas
3. Johnny “Gay Pimp” McGovern – Dirty Gay Xmas
4. Madonna – Santa Baby
5. Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn’t Snow Often at Christmas
6. Cher – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
7. Pansy Division – Homo Christmas

Download. 27 minutes,  37mb.

“And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?”

– William Blake, Jerusalem

Not really the fairy tale land of Doctor Who, police who don’t carry guns and Harry Potter, England can be a pretty grim place to live. Starting with the punk movement through to the current dubstep scene, the societal conditions of a country with a fucked up class struggle that’s filled with housing projects and unemployment has brought us a lot of interesting music.

And that’s what this mixtape is about: the amazing albeit bleak music of England. (I have nothing against it as a country or a group of people, I just thought this would make for a good mix).

Download. 66:38 minutes, 91.59mb

1. The KLF – It’s Grim Up North (part ii)
2. Burial – South London Burroughs
3. Joy Division – Shadowplay
4. The Future Sound of London – Dead Cities
5. Billy Bragg – A New England
6. Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)
7. Throbbing Gristle – United
8. Kano – Ps and Qs
9. Vex’d – Bombardment of Saturn
10. Public Image Ltd. – The Flowers of Romance
11. Distance – My Demons
12. The Normal – Warm Leatherette
13. Coil – Ravenous
14. Sinead O’Connor – Black Boys on Mopeds
15. Skream – Nemesis
16. The Human League – Being Boiled (Fast Version)
17. Caspa – Big Headed Slags
18. The KLF – Jerusalem of the Moors

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” -Albert Einstein

A mixtape about nuclear war. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I really felt that there was not going to be a future. It just seemed inevitable. What better way to deny the inevitable than with a dance party?

Of course we didn’t know to much later that the Russians were cooking the books and that by the end of the decade they’d be insolvent and the Cold War would be over. Any young person these days probably think it was all very ridiculous.

But it did produce some great songs:

1. Anne Clark – Poem for a Nuclear Romance
2. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark – Enola Gay
3. The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes 
4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes
5. Psychic TV – Eve ov Destruction
6. Fischerspooner – We Need a War
7. Time Zone (feat. Afrika Bambata and John Lydon) – World Destruction
8. Sting – The Russians
9. Nena – 99 Luftballoons
10. Alphaville – Forever Young
11. Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral
12. Sun Ra – Nuclear War
13. Colonel Bagshot – Six Day War

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I made this mix a while ago, just fucking around with Mixmeister. I really wanted to make a mix of shoegaze/indie songs I loved. It’s best listened to after a rainstorm.

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Tracklist:

1. The Smiths – Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
2. Glasvegas – Geraldine
3. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
4. Ride – Seagull
5. Amanda Palmer – Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing)
6. Mogwai – We’re No Here
7. Suicide – Cheree
8. TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
9. The Cure – Prayers for Rain
10. UNKLE – In a State
11. Gorillaz – Dare (DFA Mix)
12. Massive Attack – Unfinished Symphony
13. The Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
14. New Order – Regret
15. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Fear is on Our Side
16. Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
17. The Editors – Lights
18. The Arcade Fire – Intervention
19. Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
20. DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World